Bottle-stopper.



Pat'ented Aug. l9, I902.

- A. c. PACKEH.

BOTTLE STOPPEB.

(Application filed July 9, .1900.) (N o M 0 de l WITNESSES: INVENTOR,

I 7' Att'y.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

ALONZO O. PAOKER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO JOHN A. YOUNG AND WILLIAM R. PATTERSON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,348, dated August 19, 1902.

Application filed July 9, 1900. Serial No. 22,892. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALoNzo O. PAOKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, Figure I is a vertical section of a bottle-neck provided with my stopper. Fig. 11 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. III is a detail of the ball. Fig. IV is a detail of the bail. Figs. V and VI are respectively side elevations and sections of a bottle-stopper, showing my ball and cap, but

' secured by the old style wire lock.

The purpose of my invention, generally stated, is a bottle-stopper wherein the ball is detachahly supported in a cap in such a man nor as to be rotatable therein and will thus present new wearing-surfaces which would prolong the life of the ball.

The further purpose of my invention is the concave seat in the upper end of the bottleneck, which receives the spherical ball and makes a better-fitting joint.

Another purpose of my invention is the use of a novel cap and lock, which affords a simple and secure method of closing the bottle.

In the accompanying drawings,which make part of this specification, A is the mouth of the bottle, provided with a concave seat at to receive the lower part of the ball B. Ball 13 is made of some compressible material-such,

for instance, as india-rubber-and may be either solid or hollow.

O is a metal cap, preferably of glass, which is provided with an arc-shaped slot 0, said slot having a seat (2 at its middle point. The cap 0 is provided with arecess 0 in which is seated the ball B. The cross-section of this recess is somewhat less than the diameter of the ball B, and the ball must therefore be compressed or sprung into said recess. The relation of the recess with the diameter of the ball, however, issuch that the ball can turn in such recess on the application of a comparatively slight force. In the slot 0 swings the bail D, which is provided with points d cl, which hook into the eyes e e of the neckwire E, which surrounds the neck of the bottle below the flange F. To lock the bottle closed, the bail D is swung into the seat 0 To unstopper the bottle, the bail is swung down to the bottom of the slot 0 on either side thereof, when the cap and ball will swing over to one side of the bottle, the ball being still retained within the cap.

The construction in Figs. V and V1 is sub stantially the same as that shown in the other figures of the drawings except that the ordinary wire lock or fastener'G is used in the place of the bail D and the wire ring E. All

this necessitates a corresponding change in the cap O.

My stopper will be. found to be a simple, secure, lasting, and inexpensive bottle-seal.

' Having described my invention, I claim- In a bottle, a stopper, a cap, arecess in the lower end of said cap, an elastic ball, said ball compressed into and so secured in said recess that it can be rotated in any direction of its axis to present new bearing-surfaces when sealed and a bail extending from said cap to said bottle.

Witnesses:

O. 0. LEE, M. W. CASKEY.

Signed at Pittsburg this 21st day of J one, 

